The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-08-14


there is no alternative for the con
sumner if the article is a necessity.
i repeat, it is robbery legalized.
Being unjust it must have attendant
evils. They are too numerous more
than to mention.
l. A protective duty drives trade
away from us. This fact is admit
ted by all. It's effect is felt too
keenly by all classes to admit of de-
NAL.
.. A protective duty increases the
cost of living, and, therefore, in
creases the nominal wages of labor
ers, not in fact, but in name. This
would be neither blessing nor curse
in itself, but the nominal higher
wages, the $25 instead of the 81 in
the old world, while buying no more
for the laborer, is the inducement
that leads tens of thousands of for
eigners every year to come to this
country. The result is, Americans
are thrown out of employment, and
we have twice as many laborers as
are needed to produce all that can
be consumed. With some of the
better class, we attract by our pro-
tected, delusive and nominally high
wages, the mass of the dangerous
classes of the old world.
According to ex-Secretary of the
Treasury, Hugh McCulloch, laborers
are in sufficient numbers to do all
our work in seven months out of
every year. The other five months
are devoted to the propagation of
socialism, nihilism, rioting and dew
ilment of every sort, as our papers
bear abundant testimony.
3. 1t places the business of the
country upon fictitious basis.
Extra capital is invested in manu-
factories, mills, ETC., not because of
increased demand, but because of
increased profit by reason of increas-
ed protection. Any business not
regulated by supply and demand
alone cannot be stable.
Many of the evils of protection
should be noticed under the guise of
pretended blessings.
/. The claim that it tends to pre-
vent the degradation of American
labor, is untrue. It is the chief
means of such degradation by bring
ing it in personal and overwhelming
competition with the worst class of
foreigners. If wages are nominally
higher in this country than in Eu-
rope, we but draw them here to com
pete with American labor.
2. 1t is claimed that other classes
than manufacturers are benefited
that freights are saved to the farmer
by having laborers in factories con
sumo them at home Freights are
saved, but the producer is none the
richer. The farmer nets as much
money from a bushel of wheat sent
to England as he does from bushel
sold to a laborer in this country.
By immigrating to this country the
consumer saves the freight. That
is all there can be in that. AT ST
per bushel, the farmer could ex-
change % bushels for that $25 arti-
Gle, if there were no protective duty
AS it is the home manufacturer re-
quires 35 bushels at 81 per bushel
The farmer is out 10 bushels OF
wheat by the operation, and all the
sophistries of protectionists can moi
replace it.
3. 1t is claimed that if we lack
manufactures foreign ones will ask
enormous prices for their commodi
ties, that manufacturing under s
protective tariff cheapens the article
Elk President John Adams shows
the aburdity of the claim as follows
"The doctrine that duties of import
seems to cheaper the price of articles
ON which they are levied seems Il
conflict with the first dictates of com
mon sense. The duty constitutes
part of the price Of the whole mas
of the article in the market 1t il
substantially paid upon the articl
of domestic manufacture as well a
upon that foreign production. Upol
one it is Il bounty, upon the the 9th
er burden. We say as long as tn
importation continues, the dut,
must be paid by the purchaser of tn
e article"
The workingman, the farmer, tn
merchant-all classes are appeale,
to to support the doctrine of pro
tective tariff with the delusive CLAIM
that they as well as the manufactur
ers can reap dollars at the expens
Il of some other class; that they ca
take by law out of the pockets q
. others more than true equivalen
y for that which they have to dispos
!, Of We can not rob each other an
!. be any the richer as people.
= one class do the most of the robbins
= some of the people must be niue
{ poorer by it. The defeat of sue
y men as Hurd and Morrison by tn
. money of Eastern manufacturers i
not the death blow to the principl
. of free trade that tariff organs seer
: to imagine. 1t is simply indicativ
: of the fact that our manufacturer
= are not financially, the worthy OF
lJects of the peoples charity, tina
: they are represented to be-a fac
y that needed to be impressed upo
the people.
y In the words of the great patrio
- Patrick Henry: Commerce shoul
{ be free as the winds of heaven. !
restricted commerce. is like tn
J. man in chains, crippled in all hi
= movements and bound to the earth
u but let him twist the letters fror
!. his legs and he. stands erect"
o VICTORY FOR THE u. ~ o.
" Opening n Way to New York.
8 New Jersey Declared from
e Interfering.